(n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) We become like botanists who think that being able to label a specimen means we know all we need to know about it.
(2) The gardenia and poinsettia are named after New World physician-botanists Alexander Garden and Joel Poinsett.
(3) This study may be useful to pharmacologists and chemists interested in plants with medicinal properties, as well as to botanists with ethnobotanical interests.
(4) The field of chronobiology, the study of the rhythms in plants and animals, was restricted to botanists for centuries.
(5) At least four of the 10 doctors of the First Fleet were keen botanists, and their endeavours established a precedent for medical "botanizing" which has become a living tradition over the ensuing 200 years.
(6) This classification scheme, which most closely reflects the evolutionary history, molecular biology, genetics and ultrastructure of extant life, requires changes in social organization of biologists, many of whom as botanists and zoologists, still behave as if there were only two important kingdoms (plants and animals).
(7) Give him a butterfly net and he could pass for a louche Victorian botanist.
(8) The relationship of green algae to land plants has greatly interested botanists for more than a century.
(9) Only one in seven universities now provide practical courses for trainee botanists in looking at plant disease.
(10) Pharmaceutical scientists and botanists from all over the world met at the University of Illinois to map a 3-year program for collecting and testing plants which may be effective in regulating fertility.
(11) Not much of a botanist myself, I did pick (at the guide's prompting) a handful of wild oregano – currently drying in my kitchen – and was envious of the wild cistus flowers that have never sprawled so successfully in my garden.
(12) In Europe, the first people who showed any interest for the cocaplant were the botanists.
(13) Plant identification in response to poison control inquiries poses problems for medical staff and botanists alike.
(14) The botanist provided his identification results through a blinded process.
(15) Jirí Josef Camel (1661-1706), a pharmacist and botanist, was born in Brno, educated at a grammar school and then joined the Jesuit Order as a laic brother.
(16) Once the patient was treated according to our normal protocol, the plant specimen was sent to a botanist for a second identification.
(17) He acquired an high reputation as a doctor and botanist and was invited to a medical chair at the University of Ferrara (1541), which he left to go to Ancona (1547).
(18) As a botanist Zinn was honoured by the fact that a flower (Zinnie) was named after him.
(19) Atherstone of Grahamstown--the first doctor to use a general anaesthetic (ether) outside America and Europe--is a 19th century example of the naturalist physician as an ardent botanist; he was also a geologist and identified the first diamond found in South Africa.
(20) Philosopher, anatomist, paleontologist, botanist, educator, and natural scientist in the purest sense of the work, Leidy's interest in the humanities and in all aspects of nature lent itself to his exact descriptions of new species and unchartered anatomic realms.
Herbalist
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(2) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(3) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
(4) A rural area of Bangladesh with a population of 191,000 had 643 health care providers, of whom 324 (50%) practiced allopathic (Western) medicine, 152 (24%) were spiritualists, 109 (17%) were herbalists, and 58 (9%) were homeopaths.
(5) The medicines employed by herbalists are not usually therapeutic in the physical sense.
(6) The status and role of the female herbalist are described.
(7) Half of the indigenous faith healers and more than half of the babalawos we interviewed attributed non-congenital deafness to malevolent forces, while only 12.5% of the herbalists made this attribution.
(8) Several years of observation of prescription habits of herbalists in Singapore have brought to the surface the use of certain herbs which form the core of different prescriptions.
(9) Traditional medical persons were, for instance, herbalists, diviners, spiritual or faith healers, traditional midwives, and birth attendants, who worked well with other staff and were willing to contribute to PHC.
(10) People treat themselves before resorting to the herbalist, the clinic nurse or the general practitioner (GP).
(11) This paper calls attention to the need for further biochemical investigations into the plant constituents and invites collaboration in the development of clinical field studies to assess the efficacy of herbalists' use of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes in Baja California Norte or other U.S.-Mexico border areas.
(12) A survey of myrtaceous plants used in traditional medicine in rural areas of eastern Paraguay was undertaken to identify the constituents of crude drugs traded by herbalists.
(13) While the majority of the herbalists prescribed a herbal ear drop, a majority of the babalawos and the indigenous faith healers prescribed sacrifices to appease the aggrieved parties.
(14) Practitioners in Zimbabwe as in Nigeria include spirit mediums, diviners, herbalists, midwives, and faith healers.
(15) While practicing medicine in a nonritual way Warao herbalists are nevertheless directly aligned with the Mother of the Forest.
(16) In the course of his treatment by a herbalist who had undertaken to cure his disability, a mildly spastic retarded four-year-old child was immersed in a heap of fermenting horse manure for 40 minutes.
(17) Discernible among the diversity of folk-medical practitioners of Songkhla, Thailand, are three prominent therapeutic traditions: those of the herbalists, folk psychotherapists, and supernaturalists.
(18) Other reasons given include preference for prayer houses or spiritual healing homes in 291 patients (13.5%) a belief that the lesion was inflammatory in 183 (8.5%), preference for native doctors or herbalists in 497 (23.1%) and economic reasons in 220 (10.2%).
(19) Though most herbalists agree that neither variety should be taken while pregnant or breastfeeding (due to lack of data), some are perplexed that echinacea is deemed unsuitable for asthmatics, diabetics and anyone with an auto-immune disease such as multiple sclerosis.
(20) Most of the clients receiving MR services were ever and current users of contraceptives and developed fewer complications from MR procedures than those served by untrained traditional herbalists, healers or birth attendants.